Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-03-05
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| nature. or the remaining 76S bills grant
| ing pensions or relieis to special desig
mated persons. 156 became laws without
the approval OF the President.
| Following IS a list of the more 1mpor-
| tant House bills which have become laws
To forfeit the Atlantic and Pacific rail-
road land grant.
To increase the pension OF widows and
dependent relatives from IS to $l2 per
month.
To abolish certain fees for official servl-
| ces to American vessels and to amend the
| shipping laws the Dingley shipping bill).
| To amend the Thurman acts Git re-
| Quires the Pacific railroads TO pay the
| costs of surveying and conveying their
| land grants, and subjects their lands to
| taxation so soon as the companies are
entitled to them, Notwithstanding the
| fact that they may delay selectiOn).
| To increase the naval establishment,
To pension Mexican war veterans.
| The oleomargarine bill.
| Declaring forfeited certain grants OF
| land made to States to aid in the con-
| struction of railroads. (Tbe lands af-
| fected are in Mississippi, Alabama and
| Louisiana.
For the construction of a Congressional
| library Duildlngs
To forfeit the New Orleans, Baton
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| bone) land grant.
To reduce the fees on domestic money
| orders for sums less than So.
To reimburse the National Soldiers
| Home for money lost through the Nor
| folk Exchange National Bank.
To provide for closing up the business
| OF the Court of Alabama Claims.
To establish additional life saving sta
tions.
For the construction of additional light
| houses.
Extending the tree delivery system.
For the construction OF light house
| supply steamer for the Atlantic and Gulf
coasts.
To provide for the appointment and
compensation of a District Judge for the
| Southern district of Alabama.
To amend the statutes so as to require
brewers to give bonds for three times
their estimated monthly tax.
For an allowance OF the "FourJh of
July" claims reported by the accounting
officers of the Treasury Department.
cone bill for each OF the two sessions).
TO authorize terms of the United
States Courts to be held at Wilmington,
N. G..
To authorize the delivery to their
owners of valuable boxes deposited in the
Treasury by the Secretary OF War.
For the issue of postal notes in sums
less than So.
For lightship of the entrance to
Chesapeake bay.
To provide for the inspection of tobac-
| co, cigars and snuff, and to repeal Sec
tiOn q, ,151 OF the Revised Statutes.
To prohibit government employees from
hiring or contracting out the labor of
| United States prisoners.
To amend the dutiable goods act ESQ as
| to allow merchandise to be transported
| in bond on passenger trains In safes,
pouches and trunks and in parceD.
TO amend the act prohibiting the Inn
portation and immigration of foreigners
under labor contracts.
Fixing the close of the season for mack.
| erel fishing.
To restrict the ownership of real estate
In the Territories to American citizens.
For the erection of a public building at
Charleston.
To increase the limit of the cost OF the
public building at Chattanooga.
The most important House bill Of pri-
vate character that became a law was
the Fitz JOnn Porter bill.
Forty House joint resolutions became
laws, the principal ones being as follows:
For the settlement of the accounts OF
|. the Mobile and Ohio Railroad Company.
Directing the Commissioner OF Labor
to make an investigation as to convict
labor.
To authorize the President to protect
American fishing and trading vessels and
American fishermen in Canadian waters.
Authorizing an investigation of the
books, etc., OF the Pacific railroad com,
panies.
SENATE MEASURES.
or the total number of bills which
| passed the Senate 800 became laws, In
| cluding 1l5 public and 205 OF strictly
private nature. Following is list Of the
more important Senate bills placed on the
statute books by the present Congress:
The Presidential succession bill.
The Cullom-Reagan bill to regulate in
| terstate commerce.
For theretirement and recoinage OF the
trade dollar.
The electoral count DILL.
For the allotment of lands In severalty
to Indians.
To repeal the tenure Of Office act.
To increase the annual appropriation
| for the militia.
To establish agricultural experiment
stations.
For the study OF the effects Of narcotics
and intoxicants in the public schools.
80 legalize the Incorporation of trades
unions.
Authorizing the transmission OF weather
reports through the mails free OF postage.
TO indemnify Chinese for losses sus.
tanned by the Rock Springs, WyQ., riots.
For the erection OF military telegraph
line between Sanford and Point Jupiter,
Fla.
To make Tampa, Fla, port of entry.
To provide for the execution Of article
OF the Chinese treaty of Nov. II. 1880.
1t prohibits the importation OF opium
into either country by citizens of the
other.
For the erection OF public buildings as
follows: At Augusta, Ga; Huntsville
Ala, and at Jacksonville, Fla.
PRIVATE BILLS.
The most noteworthy OF the private
Senate bills which became laws were
those to remove the political disabilities
| OF Alexander II. Lawton, OF Georgia, and
granting the franking privilege to and
pensioning Mrs. Grart.
Ofthe foregoing measures seven became
| laws by the expiration OF the cOnstitu.
tional ten days Limitation, viz: The Nor
mon polygamy bill; the trade dollar
redemption bill; the militia bill and four
private bills.
The Senate bills vetoed we're thIrty-nine
| in number, eleven being OF public, aud
twenty-eight OF private character.
The ninety-three House bills vetoed
included eIghty-seven private bills and
six bills OF public nature.
The regular appropriation bills which
failed of enactment were the Notifications